November 11 & 12th: Crawl Your Way Through China World Shopping Mall

A collaborative event between four big names in Beijing’s F&B world and with the purpose of supporting a worthwhile and relevant cause, the BJ FOoDiEs team is responsible for creating the upcoming FOoDiEs Crawl. Here’s your chance to round up all the foodies you know so you can literally eat and drink your way through the new China World Shopping Mall.

For those who aren’t familiar with BJ FOoDiEs, they are a group that rounds up Beijing’s die-hard foodies who like to eat while supporting a worthwhile cause with monthly charity dinners. But instead of just hosting a dinner at one restaurant, they’re changing things up this November with an event that spreads across 4 restaurants and an entire weekend. While their events are known for hosting charity dinners at different restaurants around Beijing for an amazing price of RMB 100-150 per person, this month is a twist on their standard format. And FOoDiEs can all expect the same steal-of-a-deal they love about this group.

Selecting the new China World Shopping Mall as a prime spot filled with practically more restaurants than there are retail shops, BJ FOoDiEs has rounded up some of their favorite spots – 小Susu, Migas Mercado, HANA by Hatsune and F Bistronome – to offer an opportunity for foodies to eat your way through four restaurants who happen to all be conveniently located in one place. So foodies can “crawl” their way to each stop for a tasty bite and beverage.

Crawl Your Way through China World Shopping Mall, which Offers Glorious Views of the CCTV “Pants”

See here the breakdown of each restaurant’s incredibly generous deal –

4. HANA by Hatsune: Aki Sushi Tartare + Kirin Beer

This is Your Ticket (Literally) to Get 4 Signature Dishes & Beverages by these 4 Featured Restaurants

For the ticket price of RMB 380, each of the four featured restaurants will be showcasing one signature dish alongside a beverage for a total value of RMB 690.

More than just an amazing opportunity to eat your way through one of the coolest new F&B malls in the city, every ticket purchased will donate RMB 60 to this month’s select charity – the World Refugee Crisis Fund, which is a personal project by fellow FOoDiE Brian Germain, a psychology teacher at the International School of Beijing who has been to Greece and Lebanon in past years and will be going to Bangladesh for three weeks over winter break.

“Even in the modern era, millions of people around the world continue to be displaced by atrocities of war, famine, drought, natural disasters, and exploitation. Transient populations fleeing such atrocities are food insecure and lack equal access to education which often leave them in an inescapable cycle of destitution for generations.

This month’s foodies event will serve to fund the transitional needs of displaced peoples around the world as they migrate to settle in these new places. When people decide to leave their homes, lives, and families behind to cross borders and find a glimmer of hope in a new land, it is because they have no other options. However, in fleeing the immediate dangers of their present situations, many often are met with the new challenges of being without possessions in a foreign land.

100% of money raised through this event will go towards providing clean water infrastructure, sanitation, hygiene, and education which are matters most in need of immediate funding in small areas experiencing a rapid influx in population.”

You can read more about Brian’s past missions working with refugees in Greece and Lebanon here on his blog:

Volunteers deliver water tanks to refugee settlement in Lebanon’s Beqqa Valley so residents can store clean water for daily use. The fundraising initiative was started by volunteers.

Volunteers in Kara Tepe Refugee Camp pose with clothes they purchased for residents on a weekly trip across the Aegean to markets in Turkey. The fundraising initiative was started by volunteers.

THE FOUNTAIN SCHOOL, QAB ELIAS, LEBANON, Class of 2017

“When the lesson ends each day at 5pm, we hide our cardboard mats inside a giant abandoned tractor tire and run home in bursts while holding hands and practicing counting with each step. Double rounds of high fives are exchanged before the kids all play soccer together and their parents extend invitations for tea. The next day when I walk to pick everyone up at their homes, I know they will come out screaming school! School! SCHOOL!! while jumping up and down like they just had their first taste of ice cream and are being offered a second. If you want to see hope in the world, you will find it in education.”

USD$883 –

That’s how much it took to feed a small settlement of about 160 people in Lebanon for a whole week with quality food supplies. One week isn’t food security, but maybe this truck full of food will mean one less child working the fields to support the family instead of going to school. The fundraising initiative was started by volunteers.

Tickets will be available for purchase at each of the participating restaurants and also available for pick-up near Sanlitun or Dongzhimen by contacting WeChat ID: LumDimSum.

FOoDiE Crawl Event Details:

Dates: Saturday, November 11th & Sunday, November 12th

Time: During Restaurant Business Hours (each restaurant is slightly different but generally 11AM-10PM)